William Leake, London, 1653. Second Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Very Good Condition. 1/4 early leather over marbled boards, corners reinforced with vellum. Worn and rubbed, front hinge split but attached by cords. Notes to endpapers, scattered light foxing, a few finger smudges, small section of worming to the bottom margin just touching a few letters; generally clean. The second English edition of this important book of mathematics, illusions, fireworks, and optics first published in 1624 as Les récréations mathématiques and often attributed to Jean Leurechon Brunet 7849 (French ed.). With the Description of the Use of the Generall Horological Ring and The Double Horizontall Diall by William Oughtred bound in at the end with a separate title dated 1652 and unpaginated. Lacking the rear endpaper. With a separate engraved title with a slightly different title. Immensely popular and influential, it passed through over 30 editions in thje 17th century, influencing the wave of popular mathematical books to come. [40], 284, [1], 285-286, [17] p. With in text illustrations throughout. Graesse 8.46 (French ed.). First issue of the second English edition. ESTC R217635 Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 041376. .

Madrid - Melchor Sanchez, 1653 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. An early Spanish translation of the history of Don Rodrigo, Roderic, Visigothic King of Hispania, known as 'the last King of the Goths', and the conquest of the Iberian peninsula and Spanish mainland by invading Muslims. Bound in early if not original vellum. The title page is supplied in manuscript as shown. Missing the last two leaves of the table . This work has been dated and publication details from the title page of the Second Part. In Spanish. Translated from the Arabic by Miguel de Luna. A handwritten title page has been tipped-in to the front pastedown. Condition: The textblock binding is becoming loose in places. The hinges are held by two cords only. Pages 227-238 and 323-334 are only partially attached. There are creases and discolouration to the extremities. Internally the pages have some browning with background foxing and tidemarks throughout, prominent to the front and rear. There are occasional, marginalink inscriptions. There is slight chipping the page edges, prominent to the front and rear of the book, that does not affect the text. There is a closed tear to the fore-edge margin of page 237. There is a section missing from the bottom of page 231 that affects some of thetext. Overall the condition is good only..

1653. Lyon, P. Borde, L. Arnaud & C. Rigaud. 1653. 2 volumes. Folio (360 x 235mm). pp. (8), 960, (36); (120), 758, (30), with 2752 woodcuts. Contemporary calf, richly gilt decorated spines in 6 compartments. The second and last French edition of Dalechamp's famous herbal. The first Latin edition was published 1586-87 followed in 1615 by the first French edition. The present edition is the most complete one in the French language. "Dalechamp is considered by some authorities to have been one of the most erudite of the French botanists of the 16th century. His book is a compilation of the botanical knowledge available at that date, and is important as it shows another grouping attemp at a classification of the plants which he described. A number of woodcuts were especially made for the book from plants sent to the author by Lobel, l'Ecluse, and others, but for the most part were taken from previously published works" (Hunt 154). Dalechamp was a student of Rondelet and among his regular correspondents were Conrad Gesner, Joseph Justus Scaliger, Robert Constantin and Jean Fernel. First two leaves of each volumes have the outer margins somewhat browned, else a fine copy. Nissen BBI, 447..

Lisbon, Na Officina Craesbeeckiana, 1653. - 4°, disbound Caption title. Woodcut initial on p. 1. Final blank leaf, which is conjugate to the first leaf, almost detached. Page numbers shaved on first leaf. Overall in good to very good condition. 22 pp., (1 blank leaf). *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The "Respostas" by Jorge de Araujo Estaço, with their own caption titles, begin on pp. 15 and 19.D. Manuel da Cunha, born in Lisbon in 1594, was Bishop of Elvas, chief chaplain to D. João IV, and finally Archbishop of Lisbon, where he died in 1658. He was a major figure in the restoration of Portuguese independence after December 1, 1640.*** Arouca C786. Barbosa Machado III, 213. Innocêncio V, 406-7 (without collation and with slightly different title); XVI, 167. Pinto de Matos (1970), p. 213. Fonseca, @Restauração 416. Palha 3292. Not in @Exposição bibliográfica da Restauração. Not in Trindade @Restauração. Porbase cites a single copy in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in CCPBE. Copac cites a copy in the British Library. WorldCat lists only the Harvard copy. Not located in Library of Congress Online Catalogue. Not located in Aladin. Not located in Hollis. Not located in Orbis. Not located in Melvyl. [Attributes: First Edition]

Leipzig: Timothel Rikschens (Timothy Ritsch), 1653. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good Condition. First German edition of this classic of Renaissance midwifery first published in 1596. Mercurio (ca. 1540 - 1615) a Dominican friar and later, practicing physician, was the first to adequately describe the Caesarean section. His work, written in the vernacular in Italian and German, was widely influential. Extra engraved title and 23 full page plates (though many much smaller than a full page) showing equipment, cut aways, and fetus position in the womb. Contemporary leather binding, original ties worn, frayed, and incomplete, a few small worm holes; binding is rubbed and worn but attractive, text block pulled fully away from spine, occasional light worming and some chipping and loss to some corners; lacking front endpapers, but intact and complete. The plates are finely executed and often striking. (32), 844pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Medicine & Health; Inventory No: 037880.

Printed for Rich: Royston, at the Angel in Ivy-Lane, London 1653 - First separate edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait by William Marshall. [2], 54 [i.e. 94] pp., paginated irregularly: pp. 1-46, 27-50, 31-54. 1 vols. 12mo. First published in 1648, as part of THE RETURNES OF SPIRITUAL COMFORT AND GRIEF IN A DEVOUT SOUL (Wing D2605). A "third edition" (Wing D2606), also of 1653, appeared under the title THE HOLY LIFE AND DEATH OF ?, but with an entirely different, expanded collation (see OCLC: 12730375). This (Wing D2606A) would appear to be the first separate edition of THE LIFE, and it is quite rare thus: ESTC locates only 2 copies in America (UCLA and the Clark Library).To add to the interest of this copy, the verso of the title leaf bears the engraved armorial bookplate of "John Newdigate of the Inner Temple London Esq: 1702". Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) D2606A; ESTC R19150 Eighteenth-century sheep, red leather spine label, lovely copy, early owner's initials on title page and inscription marked through at top edge Engraved frontispiece portrait by William Marshall. [2], 54 [i.e. 94] pp., paginated irregularly: pp. 1-46, 27-50, 31-54. 1 vols. 12mo [Attributes: First Edition]

Londini: Rogerus Daniel 8vo (17.5 cm, 6.9"). [8], 1279, [3], 186, [2] pp.. 1653 First edition of the Septuagint printed in England, edited by the scholar and Socinian controversialist John Biddle. Two issues of this edition are known to exist: This is a copy of issue B: Further, there are two states of issue B: This is the variant with 16 lines of text in the dedication. => The Greek type is small, but readable and elegant. This edition includes the Scholia, with a separate title-page ("In Sacra Biblia Graeca ex versione LXX. interpretum Scholia; simul et interpretum cæterorum lectiones variantes"); the Old Testament is printed in double-column format, and the title-page in red and black. Contemporary speckled calf, covers framed in triple blind fillets, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label (chipped) and blind-tooled ray decorations in head and foot compartments; sides with small scuffs and patches of mild to moderate discoloration, leather chipped at head of spine and nicked at lower front edge, spine leather showing thin cracks. Pastedowns and front free endpaper lacking, back free endpaper and fly-leaves partially excised. Pages trimmed very closely, in a few cases touching headers or first or last letters. Title-page with early inked ownership inscription, lined through. Occasional small ink spots, touching but virtually never obscuring letters; one leaf with three words corrected in an early inked hand; scattered instances of early underlining in colored pencil. Mild age-toning. => A landmark of Bible printing in England.

Udine Italy (Utini): Nicolai Schiratti, 1653 but colophon 1652. Hardcover. Very Good. Copperplates (110 mostly large) + 10 full-page copperplates + 3 folding plates, one is a cancel stuck over another plate. Folio newer half brown pig (slightly rubbed) Titlepage with nice copperplate with PAX (peace) and her emblems flanked by 2 nude boys each holding 3 oil lamps + [18]pp dedication & other prelims with large woodcut headpiece of cherubs, flamingo-like birds, fruit etc. & large initial with bird in a branch) + 3-1280 Columns (ie. 2 numbers per page) + [27]pp indices & errata +[1]p colophon Dated 1652 with large female figure. New endpapers, one corner of a page repaired with tissue affecting only part of a few lines of side notes & 2 margins repaired not affecting printed area. Some offsetting or show-through from the plates and 4 pages with some soiling, other pages very clean and crisp (possibly washed but print & plates entirely dark and crisp). Now lacks 2 leaves (Vv 3-4): 2 leaves were removed from this place when it was rebound (binder's note in German) but these pages obviously came from ANOTHER edition as they do not complete the sense of the missing pages. The removed pages are tipped in to the rear endpapers. These are NOT the two pornographic pages (Pp6 & Bbb4) which are often taken out but are here present. *An extensive, well illustrated work on lamps using examples from the museum of Joan. Galvani engraved by Jo. Georg. The text includes how fire is used in religious and other ceremonies, and gives inscriptions, symbols and with elucidatory side notes. The
… [Click Below for Full Description]

London: Evan Tyler for a Society of Stationers, 1653. 12mo (14.8 cm, 5.8"). [936] pp. This "authorized" Bible (i.e., King James Version) was printed by Evan Tyler, the King's Printer for Scotland in 164152 and 166072, for "a" society of stationers; "not," as NUC Pre-1956 notes, "'the' society, but a body who pretended that they possessed the ma[nuscript] of 1611, and claimed the copyright." The text, which in this edition does not include the Apocrypha, is printed 66 lines to a full page => ruled in bright red with the dedication's text additionally surrounded by an ornamental type border of small fleurs-de-lis. The title-page, engraved by W. Marshall, is => beautifully hand-colored in shades of red, green, yellow, brown, grey, and purple. A separate woodcut title-page, elaborately red-ruled but uncolored, introduces the New Testament. Binding: 18th-century full mottled crimson morocco, covers tooled in gilt with a rope and coin roll border, framing a single stamp of a Saracen ducally crowned, the => gilt supra-libros of Albemarle Bertie at the center of each board, gilt along the board edges and turn-ins in a floral roll pattern; spine gilt extra with a leafy flower tool in each of six compartments divided by gilt rolled raised bands; all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, and a green silk marker. Provenance: Ownership signature of Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey (17441818), British general and sometime member of Parliament for Stamford (front fly-leaf verso), with his supra-libros as above and his armorial bookplate (front pastedown). S
… [Click Below for Full Description]

- 2nd.ed., 8vo., (xxiv)+615pp.+table, a very good copy in early calf, hinges split and worn at top and bottom, spine rubbed. La Haye, 1653. Naudeís ìApology for the Great men who have been accused of Magicî is his principal work first published in 1625 in Paris when he was working for Cardinal Richelieu as librarian.

London: printed for M. M[eighen]. T. C[ollins] and Cabriell Bedell, 1653. London: printed for M. M[eighen]. T. C[ollins] and Cabriell Bedell. 1653. "First edition in Latin, 8vo, pp. [8], 147, [7]; both title-p. printed in red and black and both within woodcut borders; English and Latin text on opposite pages; full contemporary calf neatly rebacked; a very good copy. At the back is a note to the reader and a 4-p. ""glossarie"" of hard words.& & Translated into Latin by Theodore Bathurst and edited by William Dillingham. & & Johnson, A critical bibliography of the works of Edmund Spenser, no. 7; Pforzheimer 977."

printed for M. M[eighen]. T. C[ollins] and Cabriell Bedell, London 1653 - First edition in Latin, 8vo, pp. [8], 147, [7]; both title-p. printed in red and black and both within woodcut borders; English and Latin text on opposite pages; full contemporary calf neatly rebacked; a very good copy. At the back is a note to the reader and a 4-p. "glossarie" of hard words.Translated into Latin by Theodore Bathurst and edited by William Dillingham. Johnson, A critical bibliography of the works of Edmund Spenser, no. 7; Pforzheimer 977. [Attributes: First Edition]